Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 13:28:45 -0700 | | From | Randy Dunlap <> | | Subject | Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable / cant start new threads |
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On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:26:47 -0700 mark wrote:
> I upgraded to 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 fedora core 9, now I get this > error when I try to login to the box, kill a pr start a python app, or > do anything on a regular basis. > > fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > I have over 10GB RAM free, and zero swap spaced used. The box is a > dual quad core Intel Xeon 5405 with 16GB RAM. > > There is no error message in /var/log/messages or dmesg ... > how do I identify the problem? > thanks! > > uname -a > Linux XXX 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 13 04:54:47 EDT 2008 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 16086 3189 12896 0 42 666 > -/+ buffers/cache: 2481 13605 > Swap: 1983 0 1983 > > > have only 505 processes running > ps aux | wc -l > 505 > > > uptime > 11:24:15 up 39 min, 1 user, load average: 3.54, 3.47, 2.87 > > ulimit -a > core file size (blocks, -c) 0 > data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited > scheduling priority (-e) 0 > file size (blocks, -f) unlimited > pending signals (-i) 137216 > max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 > max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited > open files (-n) 32768 > pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 > POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 > real-time priority (-r) 0 > stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 > cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited > max user processes (-u) 1024 > virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited > file locks (-x) unlimited
Hi,
The only place that fork() returns EAGAIN is for number of processes being >= its limit. Does this user already have >= 1024 processes?
--- ~Randy
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